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I've been robbed! Well, more accurately, my mother's been robbed. Someone kicked the door in and took our TV and our laptop from the apartment. My sister discovered it, so of course while the cop was here, we kept joking about the $50 gift card and the $1200 BOSE stereo that the thiefs left.
On top of that, I got shortchanged at Target about a week ago by some guy buying giftbags. Christmas gift bags!

Discuss:
-being screwed over
-screwing others over
-how freaking desperate you have to be to steal during the holiday season

Well, ********. Christmas Eve, I rode my bike to work in the morning and got hit by a car. I'm perfectly fine - no injuries.
I was crossing from one sidewalk to another along a very busy road. One car was coming out of a parking lot from a shopping center. He didn't slow before he hit me, and he didn't stop for the stop sign. The way his Cruiser hit me, it caught my back tire and pushed my bike onto the sidewalk. I yelled something at him when I realized he was trying to leave, and the sixty-year-old in the car threw his hands up, like, "Oh, well."
A pedestrian who was approaching the road I got hit on grabbed me and made sure I was okay. I went to work and then came home.

I hope the guy that hit me gets what he dished out times five. mad

Discuss:
-the obsolete nature of the holidays
-the pointlessness of kindness
-the joys of giving, or whatever.

I didn't realize my post sounded that way!
No, thank God no one was home. My sister came in after it happened.

Some people steal just for the sake of stealing, or because they know that they're hurting others, some steal for a reason, not that it makes it any better though.

Either way, doing that kind of crap during a holiday season just shows how low some people are...


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Be back in a bit, dishes need to be done.

Well, password protection only goes so far. It's incredibly easy to crack that protection. Either way, if they WERE dumb enough to do that and take the hard drive, even if they popped it into another laptop, her name would STILL be password protected, so all they would have done is waste time and energy.

Well, in Australia apparently now is the time when more homes get broken into (it's what they were saying on tv the other night anyway) because it's summer so people leave doors and windows open and rely on their security screens. I do hope people are smart enough to lock up before they leave the house though... >_>

I once had a teacher who fell asleep on the couch while watching tv at night, when she woke up she went around the corner and came face to face with a robber who then knocked her out. If I remember correctly he may have broken her ankle too or something... She had to use a walking stick afterwards. Her neighbours saw her unconcious on the floor through the blinds and called for help. gonk

Dear god, it seems like everyone's getting robbed or something at this time of year >.> All of my aunt's jewelry and her laptop were stolen a week or so prior to Thanksgiving and my boyfriend told me that apparently folks broke into his old house and wrecked up the place.

I'm glad you guys weren't anywhere near it all when it happened though 3nodding

ninja

I thought the same thing... after I'd gotten to work, parked my bike, called my mom and cried it off. I was too surprised at the time to think clearly, and then the other guy was talking to me...
Oh well. Karma will get the ******** you, though. :huggles back: